Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

10.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

13.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

15.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

19.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

33.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

48.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon